{"id":138586,"date":"2023-09-02T23:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138586"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:18:54","slug":"hour-15-dear-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-15-dear-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15-Dear Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader<\/p>\n<p>We meet again<\/p>\n<p>under the direst of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>See this year,<\/p>\n<p>I am broken.<\/p>\n<p>Tired.<\/p>\n<p>Uninspired.<\/p>\n<p>You have such faith in me.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t have it to give you.<\/p>\n<p>Not this time.<\/p>\n<p>Not this place.<\/p>\n<p>I can only write.<\/p>\n<p>Vomit my thoughts<\/p>\n<p>onto this page.<\/p>\n<p>I am callous perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>Too caught up in myself<\/p>\n<p>to even consider your needs.<\/p>\n<p>See this time, these lines are about me.<\/p>\n<p>Not you.<\/p>\n<p>I know that is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Self-serving. Cold.<\/p>\n<p>Please bear with me<\/p>\n<p>While I pull myself together.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a really harsh month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader We meet again under the direst of circumstances. See this year, I am broken. Tired. Uninspired. You have such faith in me. I just don&#8217;t have it to give you. Not this time. Not this place. I can only write. Vomit my thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138666,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138586\/revisions\/138666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}